Michael Gorman on the Digital Divide, Technolust and 21st Century Literacy

It’s been one of those fast-moving weeks, my apologies for the delay on my thoughts on Gorman’s talk on April 8. To be fair, Gorman’s talk came at the very end of a really long evening of awards and acceptance speeches, so his talk seemed more reserved (even with the anti-tech zingers that peppered the talk) than I had anticipated. Suggestion for organizers of award-slash-guest-speaker events, please try to keep on schedule. Sometimes, award winning graduate students should be seen and not heard. Back to Gorman’s talk on libraries of today and tomorrow…

“Libraries As Place” on the Endangered List…

On the surface, Gorman said some things that most people would agree with: “the pressure on libraries is tremendous”, referring both to cuts being felt by most public libraries across the country and the increased demand for library services in urban communities. Gorman clearly seems to be passionate about need for library services and parity in funding within inner cities. (more…)